4. GLOBALSTAR TRAVEL MANAGEMENT

KEY PEOPLE
James Stevenson, chief executive officer
Chris Weedon, vice president global sales & services
Julian Russell, executive director information technology and supplier relations
Mark van Iersel, executive director marketing & partner recruitment

NUMBER OF MEMBERS GLOBALLY
55

NUMBER OF LOCATIONS GLOBALLY
2,400

MEMBERS INCLUDE
DER BUSINESS Travel (Germany), TakeTwo Travel (UK), Omega World Travel (UK), Travel Counsellors (UK), VoyagExpert (France), Nomago Travel (Slovenia), Travel Desk (Italy), e-Business Travel (Netherlands), In Out Travel (Spain), Triton Travel (Belgium)

TECHNOLOGY OFFERED TO MEMBERS
Full suite of TMC services to members branded as the Star Suite of solutions. FareStar airfare tool, ReportStar global reporting tool, SecureStar risk management and traveller tracking, OnlineStar online booking tool (proprietary), TripStar app, ProfileStar profile management

AIR PROGRAMME
FareStar powered by e-globalfares provides access to local content in more than 80 countries

HOTEL PROGRAMME
GlobalStar offers the Advantage Global Accommodation Programme to its partners. The programme comprises of properties from all areas of the world in all the main GDS providers (Travelport, Amadeus, Sabre and Worldspan). Post Covid the programme has consistently grown year-on-year and in 2023 the programme grew by 21%, totalling 42,500 properties

OTHER MEMBER BENEFITS
A full suite of sales, marketing, global account management, global implementations, global IT support and global supplier agreement benefits is provided to members

BIGGEST INNOVATION OF 2023
In 2023 DER BUSINESS Travel (one of the original GlobalStar founders) returned to GlobalStar as the dedicated partner in Germany. Additionally GlobalStar has launched the GlobalStar Partner Advisory Council (PAC). A key objective is to create a new means for balanced strategical communications for and between the partners, share regional market conditions and is a sounding board for new ideas and strategy for GlobalStar